{"id":10127,"date":"2021-05-12T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2022-01-17T06:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:52:56","slug":"tn7-hop-14-saugerties-ny-to-orange-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/12\/tn7-hop-14-saugerties-ny-to-orange-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"TN7 Hop 14: Saugerties NY to Orange MA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN7 Hop 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

168 miles via Blue Mountain Road, NY 32, US 9W, I-587 in Albany, I-90, US 20, MA 9, MA 112, MA 2 and MA 122. Cumulative tow miles: 2150. Truck miles: 218. Cumulative truck miles: 3290. The extra truck miles were due to a trip to the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Kingston, a trip to Big Pink<\/a> (thanks, John Bartel, for the tip) and a shopping and refueling trip after I got to my destination. I also made a wrong turn from I-90 onto US 20 and that added about 3 tow miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That concludes the TN7. I will do a wrapup soon, but the bottom line is this: the truck performed brilliantly and there were no major problems along the way. I have to rate this as the most problem-free trip since the trip to the west coast in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The route chosen was a toll-free route because (1) I am cheap and (2) it wasn’t much longer, time-wise, than the route up I-87 and over on I-90. The roads were mostly 2-lanes but traffic was light and there were very few points where I was delayed by traffic. The low point was Pittsfield MA which is an ugly industrial town and I did encounter some long traffic lights there. Otherwise, smooth sailing on a sunny, cool day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip to Mount Calvary Cemetery was unexpectedly successful. I reduced the number of unphotographed graves from about 150 to 62, so about 90 graves photographed in a little over 3 hours. 30 graves per hour? Yeah, that is productive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Pink, I think<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The trip to Big Pink was less successful. Let me say that this house is remote <\/strong>and a bit spooky. It is at the end of a half-mile poorly maintained dirt road. “No trespassing” and “private road” signs were everywhere. The house itself is surrounded by trees and is fenced, probably to deter sightseers like me. I half expected a guard with a shotgun and a doberman to appear and escort me back down the road. Well, that didn’t happen but neither did I get a good photo of the house. If you want to see Big Pink, read the Wikipedia article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was only 10 minutes from the campground. I had to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where the rubber meets the road<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The campground in question is the Rip Van Winkle Campground<\/a> in Saugerties. Jett and I stayed here for a couple of nights last fall on our way south. I didn’t like it much then and I am still not a huge fan. I got the same site – #77, a huge pull-through – and that was nice. But the roads are narrow with sharp turns and steep hills. And the staff is not particularly helpful. I arrived at 1:30pm, which is usually late enough to check in. But I was informed that check-in time was 3pm and I should leave and return in 90 minutes. She didn’t even bother to see if the site was available. I had to execute a very tight U-turn (did I mention that the roads are very narrow?), missing the back end of a parked pickup by about 2 inches. I went a half-mile down the road and parked in a closed business parking lot (it was Sunday) and used the time to check emails and news. I had to execute another tight turnaround there – one that left some rubber from the RV’s tires on the asphalt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campground does have excellent cable TV, which was a treat after nearly a week with only very spotty over-the-air television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My destination for the summer is the Quabbin Pines RV Resort<\/a> in Orange MA. The arrival there was more of an adventure than I would have liked. But I will save that story for a separate post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

168 miles via Blue Mountain Road, NY 32, US 9W, I-587 in Albany, I-90, US 20, MA 9, MA 112, MA 2 and MA 122. Cumulative tow miles: 2150. Truck miles: 218. Cumulative truck miles: 3290. The extra truck miles were due to a trip to the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Kingston, a trip to … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10,4,7,5,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-places-ny","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-tn7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10835,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}